id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zxorp7yf4na6nnytg2b5ob7wii Jack Glaser Intergroup Bias and Inequity: Legitimizing Beliefs and Policy Attitudes 2005 26 .pdf application/pdf 12073 1319 60 affirmative action, colorblindness/"racial privacy," hate crime legislation, samesex marriage, and, in greater depth, capital punishment and racial profiling. Primary themes underlying the legitimizing beliefs include denials that groupbased biases and inequities exist, overestimations of the societal costs of inequityreducing policies, valuing public safety above civil liberties, and discounting the KEY WORDS: inequity; legitimizing beliefs; policy attitudes; affirmative action; colorblindness; Group-based inequities (i.e., disparities between racial, ethnic, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, and other groups in access to resources, rights, present analysis, I will focus primarily on beliefs that enable one to oppose or support inequity-attenuating policies (such as affirmative action or hate crime statistics Several cases (affirmative action, desegregation, colorblindness/racial privacy, same-sex marriage, and hate crime laws) will Despite years of research findings indicating racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty (e.g., Baldus et al., 1998; United States General Another legitimizing belief that supports policy inaction is that racial profiling does not really happen. ./cache/work_zxorp7yf4na6nnytg2b5ob7wii.pdf ./txt/work_zxorp7yf4na6nnytg2b5ob7wii.txt